Monday, January 17, 2011

Curly Girly

Lately, I've been on the quest for perfect hair, but I don't need it to be silky straight or huge and voluminous. I love the look of big, loose, sometimes messy supermodel curls. I found a great tutorial via famous beauty video blogger JuicyStar07 and went out to buy a 1.5 inch Conair curling iron on the mission to learn how!

I just like the shift from slick straight, ironed hair and something that looks a little more natural:

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It's been a lot of wasted hairspray & trial and error but I think I'm finally starting to achieve the look I want! This was an attempt before a recent girl's night out.

20 comments:

Your hair looks lovely and so does the lacy blouse you are wearing in the photo. My hair is naturally curly and I blow dry it straight. I have an old Ava Gabor wig, but need a new one. Be careful with that curling iron. Do you ever use rollers? I used to use some really big rollers when my hair was long.

You know what, the other day on a whim, I did a quick upside-down blow dry, and then plugged in the curling iron and focused on the lower half of my hair. I spent about ten minutes adding a little curl, did some crazy hair spray/upside-down head shaking and voila, sexy, curly, voluminous hair. I love that it was so fast and easy! I'm embracing my naturally wavy/kind of curly hair, and I like it!

Looks great, the last time I curled my hair it wilted by the end of the night! My hair is naturally a thick curly mess and is currently short with layers so I prefer it straightened with the ends tucked under.

I love this look too. The 2nd photo is perfection. I can't wait until my hair gets longer. One of my favorite bloggers has great hair tutorials for everything you can think of: http://bjonesstyle.wordpress.com/

I have stick straight hair and those pictures remind me of how I used to try to style my hair before I chopped it short before Christmas. It makes me miss my long hair! I think loose curls are just so pretty.

I love your hair! Mine is naturally wavy, so usually I straighten it, but if I have more time, and my hair is wavier than usual, then I'll curl it. I have a 3/4 inch iron, but I'd like to get a bigger barrel so I can do looser curls.

Have you tried curling it with a straightener? I found its easier than a curling iron. I have naturally curly hair but sometimes I want bigger curls and this does the trick better and faster than a curling iron!